Status Updates From Island Fighting

“Shoup..roared: Where’s your squad?’ The corporal..said his squad had been wiped out. “Well’ The COL. said, ‘why don’t you get yourself another squad?’ The CPL didn’t know how. ‘I’ll tell you how, said Shoup, ‘Pick out a man, then another & another. Just say, Follow me. When you’ve got a squad, report to me.” ..the corporal did just that. By then, Shoup had a command post [on Tarawa]”